More On Sequoia's Legal Threats Against Ed Felten

The election officials have backed down and agreed not to send Felten the machine to test. News.com has more details on both the reason for the test and Sequoia's response to the whole mess. The reason? Shockingly enough, Sequoia's e-voting machines malfunctioned during the primary in a way that should scare you: it gave two different vote counts.

Sequoia has tried to explain it away as a bug, but that doesn't explain why the machines shouldn't be tested by a third party.

As a last resort, Sequoia appeals to the fact that such a test would break a licensing agreement, noting that "Licensing agreements are standard practice in the technology industry." That's clearly a cop out.